[Python-Dev] string.find() again (was Re: timsort for jython)

[Greg Ewing]

> PS: is pure substring testing such a common idiom?
> I have not found so many
> matches for   find\(.*\)\s*>  in the std lib

For more generality, maybe

  re in string

should be made to work too, where re is a regular
expression object?

Or would that be starting on a slippery slope
towards Perl...?-)

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